NYT Crossword September 27, 2025 Answers

Across

1A Thin underlayer 4 5A Comment often made with an eye roll 4 9A African capital whose name translates to "ants" 5 14A Derby, e.g. 9 16A Commit a library taboo 5 17A Ship-to-ship communication 9 18A Lacks 5 19A Parent whose child is taking steps to improve? 8 20A Backbiter? 4 21A Puts in a protected place 9 23A They arose from Ra's tears, according to Egyptian mythology 4 24A Cries of disappointment 3 25A Components of some brick buildings 8 28A It might be living on the edge 5 31A Showing tough love, say 5 32A Mash at a luau 3 33A "Please avoid brutal honesty!" 7 35A Wise 7 37A Certain drug classification, in brief 3 38A Ally of Athens during the Peloponnesian War 5 40A Fathers 5 41A Two-humper 8 43A Period that begins on July 23 3 44A It's not an option 4 45A Zest source 9 50A Brown alternative 4 51A Enterprise enterprise 8 52A WWE star Randy ___ 5 54A Part of a high-tech security system 9 55A "Lift ___ Voice and Sing" (protest anthem) 5 56A They go from season to season 9 57A Short 5 58A Hibernation stations 4 59A Seven ___ 4

Down

1D Contempt, in slang 5 2D Actress with a dual role in 1998's "The Parent Trap" 5 3D Tends to some pressing matters 5 4D Punk 8 5D The first Musketeer, alphabetically 6 6D Kept hidden, as information 5 7D Product for winter sidewalk safety 7 8D "Mean Girls" writer 3 9D Firewood choice, or its destiny 3 10D Rubs the wrong way 6 11D Alternative to a crib 9 12D Classic rock? 9 13D Paratha flour 4 15D Digital file? 10 22D Runs slowly 5 23D Kind of contest with multiple chances to participate 10 26D [This makes me mad!] 3 27D Is on the bottom? 4 28D One who's slow to pick things up 4 29D What an insensitive joke might do 9 30D Locale for many community courts 9 31D "Love Story" author Erich 5 34D Diagnostic tool, in brief 3 36D Natural history museum collection 8 39D Simplest possible phone plan 7 42D Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye, among others 6 43D Solo sorts 6 46D Particle accelerator byproduct 5 47D Statement that might follow a hug 5 48D ___ Lines (ancient Peruvian geoglyphs) 5 49D Bandage 5 50D Burns, e.g. 4 53D What comes before 1/1 3 54D Drug discussed in Aldous Huxley's "Heaven and Hell" 3